by Laurie Short | Apr 28, 2017 | Faith, Reframe your life, when changing nothing changes everything
When you were born, the world changed. No one exactly like you had ever been here. A chain of events triggered your birth, and there was a specific moment when you came to be. And at that moment you became part of a story that was going on when you arrived. Some...
by Laurie Short | Apr 20, 2017 | Faith, Reframing your life, when changing nothing changes everything
The first time I caught a glimpse of a small pile of stones on a trailhead, I vaguely noticed them. When I saw this marking a second time, I realized they had been strategically placed. A small pile of stones was the ecofriendly way of saying, “Go this way, not that...
by Laurie Short | Apr 13, 2017 | Faith, Reframe your life, when changing nothing changes everything
Being a planner and having “issues” with control are traits that often come packaged with being a firstborn child. Since I was born ten months after my parents’ honeymoon, my mom said I started running things when I was two. Because I have had these traits longer than...
by Laurie Short | Apr 5, 2017 | Reframe your life, when changing nothing changes everything
I am a stepmom. If it sounds like I’m introducing myself at an AA meeting, that isn’t so far from how it feels. These words require work for me to own, and they don’t come easily out of my mouth. After all, in the wonderful world of Disney, the stepmother is generally...